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BfK 102 January 1997

January 28, 1997/in /by Richard Hill

This issue’s cover artwork for Philip Pullman’s Northern Lights is by Stuart Williams. Pullman talks to BfK‘s interviewer Geoff Fox. Thanks to Scholastic Childen’s Books for their help in producing this January cover.

Articles

Editorial 102: January 1997
News and comment from the Editor.
Judging a Book by its Cover
Alec Williams on a new design award.
Mervyn Peake 1911-1968
Diana Wynne Jones on Mervyn Peake's Boy in Darkness and P J Lynch on the challenges of illustrating it.
The Treasury Wars
Brian Alderson looks at the current crop of gift collections.
Publishing Profiles No.1: The Non-Fiction Editor
Liz Attenborough goes behind the scenes in publishing.
Authorgraph No.102: Philip Pullman
Philip Pullman interviewed by Geoff Fox.
BfK News: January 1997
Publishers' Choice * News * Awards * Events * Best Seller Charts * Letters to the Editor
Good Reads: Burscough County Primary
Reviews from Burscough County Primary School, Ormskirk.
Classics in Short No.1: Treasure Island
Helen Levene on Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island.

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